Playing peg videos with Totem

[Nick Kamenyitzky]

I had similar problems with totem not working properly

basically to fix the problem I uninstalled totem-gstreamer (the default) 
and installed totem-xine (which i find works much better)

Bruce W. Bodnyk wrote:

> I just installed Ubuntu and was trying to play an mpeg video. When I 
> double click the video, Totem starts up but nothing is displayed. Do I 
> have to install a codec to get mpeg videos to play?
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> Thanks!
> Bruce
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